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...Coach: Rob Riley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: . . . And the Bottom of the Heap | 11/9/1990 | See Source »

...problem for us each year is that there's not a lot of naturally talented players," Coach Rob Riley said. "We're counting on hard work to keep us in games. It helps us now and then to be counted out of games. We beat Harvard last year, and Cornell a few years back after they won the ECACs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: . . . And the Bottom of the Heap | 11/9/1990 | See Source »

...entire play takes place in Barney's Delicatessen, where Rob and Bobby, the two men behind the counter, pass limitless hours churning out sandwiches for a lunch rush that never arrives. They cower under the threatening influence of an ominously absent boss named Barney as Rob discloses piecemeal the play's central concerns. Among these are the presence of a mysterious and impenetrable room "behind the back room" of the deli, which he spends most of his time trying to infiltrate; a violent "occurrence" which resulted in the disappearance of the deli's previous employees; and the undisclosed identity...

Author: By Carey Monserrate, | Title: Dorf's Deli Proves Dreary | 11/9/1990 | See Source »

...allegory without its depth of meaning. Presumably, this is intentional--the promotions for the play reading "Dorf on Life" announce its vaguely allegorical purpose. The text offers an absurdist vision that is as empty as a Zen koan, as resonant as the sound of one hand clapping. Rob and Bobby's disclosures on Life read like something off a fortune cookie or bumper sticker: "A life full of love is like being a poor person with a refrigerator--you don't have one," and "Life's a marathon and then you run one." Best of all is the aphorism: "Life...

Author: By Carey Monserrate, | Title: Dorf's Deli Proves Dreary | 11/9/1990 | See Source »

While somewhat offensive and unintelligible when taken out of context, these platitudes are woven into a highly idiosynchratic dialogue. Punctuated by puns and wordplay, it succeeds in pulling laffs as often as it fails. Bobby (Sean Williford) and Rob (Joel Rainey) conduct a whirlwind, rapid-fire dialogue that frequently disintegrates into slurs and incoherence, a problem that rests as much with the actors' nervous pitch as with the text itself...

Author: By Carey Monserrate, | Title: Dorf's Deli Proves Dreary | 11/9/1990 | See Source »

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